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Monday, August 04, 2008

Mainstream Conspiraloons - #456 Sy Hersh, #457 Keith Olbermann

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I find the Hersh piece particularly interesting as it repeats the lie that no US leader, and by implication no other leader of a 'free world' country, would knowingly make a decision that would result in the death of fellow countryfolk

It's a lie because it assumes that members of ruling elites give a damn about people outside of their class, just because they live in the same country

It's also a lie because, by necessity, people in the business of war routinely make decisions which they know will result in the death of fellow countrymen. Every time a politician or general commits troops to combat they know some of those troops will die as a result of that decision.

Some simple maths, combined with belief in a higher purpose, will dictate whether those leaders consider those casualties 'a price worth paying'.

A decision made somewhat easier by the fact that someone else will invariably be doing the paying

So...

Plus 10 Conspiraloon Loyalty Points to Hersh for breaking that particular story about Dick Cheney and pals brainstorming a false flag operation in Iran

Minus 9 points for qualifying it with a suggestion that it didn't happen because Dick Cheney and pals gave a shit about the potential casualties

10 comments:

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So, Shakespeare is a conspiraloon, now. Look no further than the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sub-plot in Hamlet. Would the King of Norway have thought twice upon acting on the sealed instructions he received?

I don't know how to rationalise it. It looks as though the US dollar economy is being propped up by a US gov promise that it will repay this debt. There isn't any precedent to suggest that it will or can. The closest precedents (70s oil shock and Russian rouble default) are trivial in comparison; so trivial that they hardly show up on the graph.

If the graph says anything, it tells us that we are in massively unprecedented times.

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